Dying to Live

Dying to Live
Author: Bhatupe Mhango-Chipanta
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982260181

Part memoir, part self-help this book is a recollection of life events-both professional and deeply personal that make up a crucial part of Bhatupe’s life journey so far. Taking us from her colourful childhood memories across african cities to her work life in Geneva and through many of her highs and lows, she is an open book within these pages and shares how one can handle being both vulnerable and strong. These stories prove that despite facing many challenges, the answers to a meaningful life can be found by reducing distractions and recharging your thoughts, your plans and your connections.

Spirituality, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Spirituality, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Author: Augustine C. Musopole
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2006
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 9990881022

It has now been twenty years since the Executive Commitee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, called upon churches worldwide to urgently address the issue of HIV/AIDS. The call arose out of a consultation on the theme 'HIV/AIDS and the Church as a Healing Community'. This book is written with a view to providing culturally relevant theological reflection on the issue of HIV/AIDS and to act as a resource in the combat of HIV/AIDS particularly in bringing about meaningful behaviour change.

Fostering Girl Child Education in Malawi

Fostering Girl Child Education in Malawi
Author: Mzumara, Cecilia
Publisher: Luviri Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9996098141

This book outlines the contribution of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (MIC Sisters) towards girl child education in Malawi with particular focus on the establishment, growth and development of Marymount Girls' Secondary School in Mzuzu., from 1963 to 2010. The appraisal by former students of Marymount, reveals the courage of the pioneering Sisters towards the empowerment of fellow women in places where they were sent to evangelize in spite of numerous challenges that they encountered in the process. The history of Marymount shows that education of the girl child provides a viable means to development and improvement of life at family, nation and world level.

Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi

Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi
Author: Joseph Chakanza
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 999606025X

Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza was born in 1943 at Mchacha Village, T.A. Malemia in Nsanje District where he grew up and discovered his vocation as a Catholic priest, being ordained in 1969. After studies for a Master's degree at the University of Aberdeen, he returned to Malawi and was appointed Lecturer in Religious Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 1977. During the 1980s he took study leave to complete his DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Thereafter he remained at Chancellor College until his retirement in 2007, serving for many years as the inspirational Head of the Department of Religious Studies. After retirement he embarked on a further period of teaching at the Catholic University of Malawi. His stature in the Catholic Church was recognised when he was made a Monsignor in June 2019. He died in his home diocese of Chikwawa in April 2020.

The Identity of Blood Money

The Identity of Blood Money
Author: Mzondi Lungu
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780880286

When the country’s most famous journalist finds himself under merciless attacks, he asks no questions about why he is being targeted – until the unthinkable happens. Is there any connection to the mysterious deaths of his billionaire sister and her husband? Meanwhile, the director of a billion-dollar business called Mulipati Akhate International delivers a pastor who embezzles funds – at a price.A gripping work of fiction that will appeal to fans of crime fiction, The Identity of Blood Money will grab readers from the start until its gripping end. Author Mzondi has been inspired by Robert Ludlum, author of The Bourne Identity, and the works of Sydney Sheldon.

On the Edge of the Great Rift

On the Edge of the Great Rift
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This volume contains three comic and sinister novels set against Africa's vibrant landscape. In Fong and the Indians, a Chinese immigrant in a ramshackle East African country learns to survive by making friends with his enemies; The Girls at Play is the story of white female teachers at an isolated school for African girls in the Kenyan Bush; and Jungle Lovers is the "comic and disturbing" story of an insurance salesman abducted by revolutionary terrorists in Malawi.